Forestry industry

This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide, focusing on their evolutionary aspects and health benefits.

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Howard Zahniser (19061964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964.

A concise, non-technical account of the structure and evolution of woodlands and forests, first published in 2007.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyers Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed Logging Capital of the World and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests.

Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries.

In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally.

The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism.

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions.

Howard Zahniser (19061964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964.

Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare.

Timber is a vital resource that is all around us.

The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans place in the universe can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society.

2011 Winner of the Hal K.

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world's tropical forests.

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years.

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom.

Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threatened extinction for many species.

Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.

A "e;conservative environmental tradition"e; in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings.

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions.

Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology category from the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFor centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery.

Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved.

Every winter settlers of the U.

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

This book explores how the transnational legal process for REDD+ has affected human rights in developing countries.

Margaret Elley Felts autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "e;gyppo"e; loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the crucial role of women within that economy.

Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community.

Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.

Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat?

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world.

A broad view of plant-pathogen interactions illustrating the fundamental reciprocal role pathogens and hosts play in shaping each other''s ecology and evolution.

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change.

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides.

In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

There is no question that the timber industry needs to adopt sustainable practices that ensure a future for the industry.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.